Rick Robinson was settling into his new job as the baseball coach at the University of Tennessee-Martin, moving some things around his office when he came across a few articles that had been written about the previous year's team.

The new commissioner of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL, 中華職棒) has finally taken up the post, ending seven months of speculation following the departure of his predecessor Hwang Jenn-tai (黃鎮台).

Disgraced dope-cheat Alex Rodriguez, who missed the entire 2014 Major League Baseball season serving a record ban for performance-enhancing drugs, reported to the New York Yankees training camp this week.